Like Luxo Junior: Apple researchers develop lamp robots

Is it Apple’s “tabletop robot”? The company now has a wonderful research project by Apple Laboratory for Machine Learning Velvet video and paper published“Alegged” is a robot that has manufactured and prefers Luxo Junior. Since 1986, from the short films of Pixar, which once lived in the inauguration of company films led by Steve Jobs.

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Lamp robots help work

Anthropomorphic machine can react to hand gestures, for example, when you reach too close to it, do deviations, and also have voice control. According to the video, she can help to project a tutorial on creative jobs and even a nearby wall. “In this letter, we present the design and prototypes of a lamp -like robot that examines the interaction between functional and expressive goals in the speed design,” the study states. It also describes the hardware design process and consultation with potential users (user studies).

It is especially interesting about the project that Apple describes hardware in a study that the group itself can apply as a product. The research teams of the iPhone group usually show mainly software solutions, for example in the AI ​​region and the same letters. There is nothing to see from the hardware department, unless it is with ecological aspects that Apple hopes that contestants will copy them.

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Is there any product?

It remains to be seen whether such an aggressive research project will become a real product. Bloomberg journalist Mark Gurman spoke of a tabletop robot project that is going on in Apple months ago. The vision is also a “smart home command center”, which is also a “video conversion machine” plus remote-controlable home safety tool (through integrated camera). However, it goes beyond her in a elegant manner.

But it is also comprehensible that the research project operates completely independently for Apple’s product ambitions. However, it is unusual that Apple becomes public with hardware research which is very close to the product. Further projects The company’s ML laboratory is related to better exploitation of LLM, scaling and Nvidia hardware.

(BSC)